Book details
Title: Èṣù is not Satan: Restoring Yoruba Spiritual Truth
Chapters: 13
Pages: 91
Dimensions: 6.15 x 0 56 x 9.21 inches
Format: Paperback
Cost: N6,999.00
To buy, chat: 07078800312
Book overview
Èṣù Is Not the Devil challenges one of the most enduring misunderstandings in African spiritual history.For centuries, the Yorùbá figure Èṣù has been wrongly equated with the Christian Satan-a mistranslation that reshaped African self-understanding, moral philosophy, and spiritual confidence. This book carefully dismantles that false equivalence and restores Èṣù to his rightful place as a principle of accountability, choice, and balance within Yorùbá thought.Drawing on philosophy, history, and cultural analysis, the author explains how missionary translation errors, colonial frameworks, and moral dualism distorted indigenous African concepts. Without promoting religious conversion or ritual practice, the book invites readers to understand Èṣù on his own terms-and to see how African systems of thought approached ethics, responsibility, and human agency long before colonial contact.Written for readers of all faiths, Èṣù Is Not the Devil is not a religious manifesto, but an intellectual restoration. It is a calm, insightful work for anyone interested in African philosophy, decolonized knowledge, theology, and cultural truth.Understanding does not require belief. It requires honesty.